Resolute’s Thunder Bay (Ontario) and Saint-Félicien (Quebec) mills have taken top honors on Pulp & Paper Canada’s list of the Safest Mills in Canada for 2018. Since 1926, Pulp & Paper Canada has recognized Canadian mills that have achieved an outstanding safety record, with the mill with the lowest total recordable incident rate (mill frequency) in each category named the winner of that class for the year.

In February, the international Mercury Excellence Awards recognized Resolute for outstanding achievement in professional communications for our combined 2017 Annual and Sustainability Report. The competition honors outstanding achievement in professional communications.

Resolute was one of the big winners at the Best in Biz Awards (North America) 2018, which were announced on November 28 in New York City. Winning a total of four awards, we were most notably recognized by the independent business awards program for our success in reducing our environmental/carbon footprint, and for our achievements in sustainability disclosures.

A unique artificial intelligence (AI) technology co-developed by Resolute and FORAC, a Quebec-based research consortium comprised of Laval University, forest products companies and governments, was selected as a finalist for an Innovation Award from the Association pour le développement de la recherche et de l’innovation du Québec (ADRIQ). ADRIQ is a provincially-funded organization that supports technological innovation in Quebec and fosters partnerships between decision-makers. The technology could revolutionize lumber drying operations at sawmills.

Our Calhoun paper, pulp and tissue mill has once again earned accolades for its outstanding sustainability achievements, receiving the APEX Environmental Steward of the Year Award for 2018 from the McMinn County Economic Development Authority. The APEX Awards recognize successful environmental practices and conservation measures by industrial corporate citizens in McMinn County, Tennessee. Calhoun was chosen for having significantly improved its energy efficiency, reduced its carbon footprint and increased its use of lower-carbon fuels.

Resolute has received three 2018 Stevies® from the International Business Awards® (IBA), including gold for Health, Safety and Environment Program of the Year for all of the United States and Canada for the second year in a row.

On August 15, 2018, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) held a ceremony to honor the employees of Resolute’s Grenada (Mississippi) newsprint mill for the Leadership Circle Award the mill won in late 2017. The Leadership Circle recognizes TVA customers who have taken meaningful steps to significantly reduce their carbon emissions and is reserved for companies that achieve the lowest carbon emission rates in a given year.

A group of nine passionate Resolute employees from across Quebec participated in the annual Ultramarathon benefiting the Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean chapter of Leucan, an organization that funds clinical research and provides resources to young cancer patients and their families. The fundraiser also benefits the Fondation École secondaire de l’Odyssée Lafontaine Dominique-Racine, which supports students in need from a local high school.

Resolute’s own Scott Manford has won the Ontario Power Generation Health and Safety Award, presented during the Atikokan Chamber of Commerce Business Awards ceremony last week.

Scott has served as the Health and Safety superintendent at our Atikokan (Ontario) sawmill since its construction four years ago. He is also responsible for recruiting new workers, overseeing their training to ensure their safety on the job. He expresses pride in the sawmill’s safety culture, which is shaped by Resolute’s company-wide ultimate goal of zero workplace incidents, zero injuries. ”One of the challenges with a start-up like Atikokan is that there are a number of less experienced employees who don’t necessarily have a background in manufacturing,” says Scott. ”My role at Resolute involves helping these new employees understand and excel at health and safety.”

We commend Scott for his achievement and the strong leadership he has demonstrated!

Pascale Lagacé has played a critical role in solidifying Resolute’s position as a global sustainability leader. As Resolute’s vice president of Environment, Energy and Innovation, she oversees strategies for reducing our carbon footprint and ensures the company’s adherence to rigorous environmental standards. We are proud to announce that the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) has recognized Pascale’s substantial contributions to the forest products industry, selecting her as its Outstanding Member of the Year for 2017-2018. Weyerhaueser’s Wendy Crosina also received the honour.

In March 2018, our Coosa Pines pulp mill was honored by the Alabama Department of Labor and Manufacture Alabama for its superior 2017 worker safety performance. The recognition is given to mills that operated the most hours with the fewest incidents. This is the third consecutive year Coosa Pines has been recognized at the Safety Achievement Awards, and the second time it has taken top honors.

On March 21, 2018, Resolute’s Calhoun (Tennessee) operation was named ‘Most Energy-Aware Mill’ by Tissue World. The honor is given to mills whose energy reduction efforts as well as overall sustainability initiatives stand out. Our Hialeah (Florida) tissue mill was recognized in the same category in 2016.

Resolute’s online corporate social responsibility (CSR) report has won a bronze 2017 iNOVA Awards for website excellence. The iNOVA Awards honor the world’s best corporate websites in the for-profit, not-for-profit, association and government sectors.

Resolute’s Calhoun (Tennessee) and Grenada (Mississippi) mills took top honors at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s (TVA) first-ever carbon reduction awards ceremony held in Gatlinburg (Tennessee) on November 16-17.

The American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) has recognized Resolute with the 2017 AF&PA Leadership in Sustainability Award for Energy Efficiency/Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Reduction for our GHG reduction program. The award was presented at AF&PA’s annual meeting on November 3 in Greensboro, Georgia.

On October 12, 2017, the Business Intelligence Group named Seth Kursman, our vice president, Corporate Communications, Sustainability and Government Affairs, “Sustainability Hero” in the 2017 Sustainability Awards category. These awards honor individuals, teams and organizations who have made sustainability an integral part of their business practice or overall mission.

Resolute’s sustainability leadership has received an honorable mention by the DuPont Safety and Sustainability Awards, which recognize outstanding initiatives aimed at enhancing workplace safety, sustainability and operational effectiveness. Winners of the DuPont 2017 awards were announced on September 4, in Singapore.

Resolute has won another prestigious Gold Stevie® from the International Business Awards (IBA), taking top honors in 2017 for the best Health, Safety and Environment Program of the Year for all of the United States and Canada. This year, there were close to 4,000 entries from over 60 nations.

Resolute was presented with a Novae Award in the Carbon Footprint category during the 2017 Novae Awards ceremony, held on June 15 at Montréal’s Centre Phi. The company was recognized for its participation in Toundra Greenhouse in Saint-Félicien, Lac-Saint-Jean, Quebec.

Richard Garneau, Resolute’s and chief executive officer, is the proud recipient of the John Dobson Medal for Free Enterprise – for a lifetime of principled leadership and advocacy on behalf of Canada’s forest products industry.

The company distinguishes itself in the Sustainable Development category.

Resolute received the Mercure award for Sustainable Development at the 2017 Mercuriades Gala held at Montréal’s Palais des Congrès on April 24. The company earned praise from the jury for its involvement in Toundra Greenhouse, located in Saint-Félicien (Quebec) an innovative joint venture in which we are one of the main partners.

The Mercuriades Awards, created by the Fédération des chambres de commerce du Québec in 1981, are the province’s most prestigious business competition. The Mercuriades celebrate the ambition, innovation and performance of Quebec businesses.

The Canadian Forest Industries (CFI) Top 10 Under 40 recognizes the best and brightest young Canadians who are driving the forest products industry forward. This year, that list includes Sylvain Goulet, general manager at Resolute’s La Doré (Quebec) sawmill.

For the sixth consecutive year, Resolute has been recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Corporate R&D Spenders.

The annual ranking is prepared by Research Infosource Inc. and highlights Canada’s most innovative corporations. In 2015, the “Top 100” raised their combined research spending by 6.9% to $12.8 billion.

Resolute and our employees were honored for developing a safer, more comfortable and eco-friendly chemical protective suit.

The award for developing the most innovative health and safety product was presented to Resolute Forest Products at the 26th annual ADRIQ Innovation Awards Gala. The awards celebration, held on November 24th in Montréal, is the main recognition event for Quebec innovators. ADRIQ noted the innovative suit provides greater protection against both heat and chemicals, while its comfort and breathability provides a dramatically higher quality of work environment and reduces worker fatigue significantly.

Resolute Forest Products is proud to congratulate Michel Belleau, the company’s Superintendent of Operation Planning and Forest Inventory in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, who recently garnered the prestigious Henri-Gustave-Joly-de-Lotbinière award from the Quebec order of forest engineers.

The Henri-Gustave-Joly-de-Lotbinière award acknowledges the work of a person who is not a professional forest engineer but has advanced the cause of forestry and enhanced the profession’s reputation. Michel is a trained forest technician.

Our entry “Demonstrating sustainability leadership: How rigorous reporting shifts culture and drives performance” won a bronze Stevie® in the category of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Program of the Year in the Americas. Rob Hilbrink, our VP Sales Europe, accepted the award on behalf of Resolute at the gala ceremony and presentation.

Each year, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative® (SFI®) recognizes one of its state/provincial SFI Implementation Committees for exemplary performance in promoting responsible forestry and for member participation, community engagement and partnerships.

The proud winner of the 2016 SFI Implementation Committee (SIC) Achievement Award is the Central Canada SFI Implementation Committee (CCSIC), led by our own Mike Maxfield, Ontario Certification Superintendent and Chair of the CCSIC.

We are pleased to announce that Resolute’s sustainability leadership has been recognized again by The New Economy Magazine – a quarterly technology, business and finance publication. The publication awarded Resolute with its Clean Tech Award for Best Forestry and Paper Solutions.

This is the second time Resolute has won a Clean Tech Award (the first being in 2014), which recognizes companies whose ideas, achievements, projects and solutions reflect innovation, long-term vision and leadership.

You can read the full article on Resolute, where our Vice President, Corporate Communications, Sustainability and Government Affairs, Seth Kursman, explains how we are following through on our strategy of building a sustainable, long-term business.

Over the past several years, Resolute has attracted a great deal of North American and global recognition and awards linked to our overall sustainability leadership and accomplishments. You can read more about them on our website.

Resolute is starting the year out right, receiving more global recognition for our leadership in sustainability.

We were honored to recently win the U.K.-based Corporate LiveWire’sExcellence in Sustainable Forest ProductsAward, representing The Americas category of the 2016 Innovation & Excellence Awards. Check out the full guide online.

This week we learned that Resolute has taken the Silver at the Best in Biz Awards – North America for Most Socially or Environmentally Responsible Company of the Year. Earlier this year we also won a Bronze in the international division of the same competition – this time, the award is for Canadian and U.S. companies.

November 13 was an exciting day for Resolute: We were recognized by the American Forest & Paper Association (AF&PA) as a leader in sustainability for our safety performance and by the International Business Awards, known as the Stevie® awards for Women in Business for the achievements of Pascale Lagacé, our vice president, Environment and Climate Change. We also garnered a Stevie award for our corporate blog.

We’re very proud of all the work our teams have done to bring Resolute to the podium for so many awards this year. And it’s especially gratifying to see that of the dozen honors we’ve either received or have been shortlisted for, six specifically recognize aspects of our work in sustainability. There’s no question this is the result of a great team effort but there’s an element of leadership here that is also important to recognize. And it is being recognized. Twice!

Pascale Lagacé, our Vice President of Environment and Climate Change, was nominated not for one, but for two awards. She’s been named to the prestigious Clean50 awards and she won a silver Stevie® in the International Business Awards’ first-ever Woman-of-the-Year category.

In a year that saw a record-breaking number of entries for the Sustainable Leaders Awards (Edies) in the U.K., Resolute’s was a stand-out submission. We’re proud to be on the short list for the Carbon Management category.

The Pulp and Paper International (PPI) Awards are the only global awards that are dedicated to recognizing the achievements of companies, mills and individuals in the pulp and paper sector, providing a platform that honors a multitude of different categories celebrating leadership, vision, innovation and strategic accomplishments within the industry.

Resolute is proud to have been selected as a finalist in two categories – the Bio Strategy of the Year Award and the Managing Risk Award – to be presented September 2015 at a reception organized by RISI, the leading information provider to the global pulp and paper industry.

We are excited to share that Resolute was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the Health, Safety & Environment Program of the Year – in Canada and the U.S.A. and that our Vice President Environment and Climate Change, Pascale Lagacé, was named the winner of a Silver Stevie® Award in Woman of the Year category in the 12th Annual International Business Awards!

The International Business Awards (IBAs) are the world’s premier business awards program. All individuals and organizations worldwide – public and private, for-profit and non-profit, large and small – are eligible to submit nominations. The 2015 IBAs received entries from more than 60 nations and territories.

We’re pleased to announce that Resolute has been named the bronze winner in the most socially or environmentally responsible company of the year category of the Best in Biz Awards 2015 International.

Now in its third year, Best in Biz Awards International has retained its unique status of being the only global business awards program judged solely by members of the press and industry analysts. Having researched and covered numerous successful companies, they believe these judges have the expertise to objectively evaluate the entry pool to choose the top companies, teams, executives and products from among the submissions.

On May 5, Resolute’s recycled bleached kraft pulp (RBK) mill in Menominee (Michigan) was recognized for its support of recycling with a “Closing the Loop” award at the state’s first Governor’s Recycling Summit.

During a conference recently organized by the Mosaïque interculturelle régionale, Resolute’s Amos (Quebec) mill was awarded the Certification-Ethno for the mill’s efforts in integrating immigrant employees. This certification recognizes companies that recruit immigrant workers in Abitibi-Témiscamingue.

Once again, our hard work on the sustainability front is paying off and being recognized. Following on the heels of being named to Corporate Knights Best 50 and Canada’s Clean50, Resolute has been awarded The New Economy’s Clean Tech Award for Best Forestry and Paper Solutions for 2014.

Calhoun has seen a busy few months on its social calendar. First it won the county economic development authority’s Innovator of the Year award this summer. Then, by the fall, its team was standing in front of the cameras again. This time they were handing two sizeable cheques to regional Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity representatives.

Resolute’s Fairmont team has been recognized by the Marion County Chamber of Commerce for its community support and involvement. The Fairmont Mill received the President’s Award during the Chamber of Commerce’s 61st annual dinner meeting held on August 13, 2014.

Resolute employees have been hard at work over the last few years, rolling up their sleeves to improve our sustainability performance in a slew of different areas from forestry to safety to managing our carbon footprint. We’re really proud of what we’ve been able to accomplish so far. That’s why it feels great to be included as one of Corporate Knights’ Best 50 Corporate Citizens for 2014 – our efforts are being recognized, which reminds us of how far we’ve come and inspires us to keep improving. In their words, “the organizations named to the Best 50 each year by Corporate Knights represent the very best in corporate sustainability performance.”